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Memorable Faculty Inspire Giving
If there is a recipe for a winning college experience, amazing faculty in and out of the classroom would rank as the key ingredient for most college students. This is certainly true at Lewis & Clark. The influence of dedicated educators often extends far beyond the time students spend in class.
Years after leaving Palatine Hill, many former students and colleagues set up funds to honor the memory of their work with influential faculty and to help a new generations of students meet their potential.
Physics Student Assistance and Enrichment Fund
Thirty years ago, when a physics professor reached out to a student in need, the idea of "paying it forward" was likely not in vogue. However, that student, Betty Stillmaker Chinn BS '83, instinctively knew the concept and followed through later.
Chinn was finishing her junior year of college when tuition increases that exceeded her financial aid award threatened her ability to live in Portland while finishing her degree. Vernon Long BS '49, professor of physics, and his wife, Carolyn, invited Chinn into their home while she completed her studies. Now, three decades later—and 26 years after Long's death—Chinn wanted to extend a similar type of opportunity to other physics students who may be facing financial hardships of their own.
Chinn and her husband, Richard, set up the Physics Student Assistance and Enrichment Fund, which supports worthy physics students with grants for various educational opportunities that will enhance the students' learning experience. With this gift, Betty and Richard hope to bolster students' readiness to transition to academic or professional life after graduating from Lewis & Clark.
"I wanted to create this fund because physics majors have specific needs for lab and research projects and for professional development that sometimes aren't being fully met via traditional financial aid or other campus resources," says Chinn. "It is my hope that other physics alumni may be inspired to contribute to the success of this fund."
Joseph M. Ha Endowed Chair In International Affairs
Lewis & Clark is known for its global network of international leaders due in large measure to the deep commitment of faculty members like Joe Ha, professor emeritus of international affairs. As one of his department's first chairs, he recruited stellar faculty and set the course for the curriculum. Former President Jack Howard wrote that Joe Ha was "a rare jewel… . No member of the faculty was ever more dedicated to his students as he assisted them to find and gain admission to the best graduate schools in the country."
To celebrate his legacy, former students, the Transpacific Foundation, and family members—including his daughter, Karen Ha Chi, and her husband, Willard Chi JD '97—have been contributing to create an endowed chair to honor his leadership. The college has successfully raised 50 percent of the funds, and seeks another million dollars to endow the position.
Leon Pike/Edgar Reynolds Scholarship
In 1961, when Leon Pike started working as the technical director for the Lewis & Clark theatre department, the theatre was in a Quonset hut in a parking lot. During his 26 years at the college, Pike developed a devoted following not only from students, whom he called "the most delightful people in the world," but also from colleagues.
Edgar Reynolds, professor emeritus of theatre, was so impressed by Pike's dedication that he named a scholarship in honor of his friend and colleague when Pike retired in 1987. The Leon Pike/ Edgar Reynolds Scholarship benefits students demonstrating excellence in the areas of design and technical theatre. Pike passed away in 2000, but an upcoming theatre reunion, held in conjunction with this year's Alumni Weekend (June 19–22), celebrates the era from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s when Pike and Reynolds worked at the college. See page 42 for more details.
Jerry Baum Award
Professor Jerry Baum's English students hailed him as an extraordinary man, a teacher committed to active learning, to ethics, and to activism. His teaching was so inspired that two of his former students, who later became professors themselves, set up a fund in his name to recognize a student whose senior seminar paper addresses the relationship between history and literature and is recognized as outstanding by faculty.
Ann Dobyns BS '68 and Scott Howard BA '87 set up the fund for the Jerry Baum Award after he died in 2006. Since then, it has served as a high-water mark for work produced by graduating seniors. Heather Spurling BA '13 received the 2013 award for her paper "Patrilineal Preeminence in Absalom, Absalom!" "It made me feel proud and confident in something I worked hard for," says Spurling. "It felt like an academic stamp of approval and was so rewarding to receive at the end of my four years at Lewis & Clark."
On the Web: www.lclark.edu/giving
Major Gifts and Grants
- $250,000 from an anonymous donor toward the establishment of the Dr. Joseph M. Ha Chair in International Affairs.
- $235,000 bequest from the estate of L. Gray Beck and Mary June Beck (parents of the late Linda L. Kandel BA '68) for the purpose of acquiring, maintaining, and assisting a quality faculty.
- $150,000 from Business Wire founder and noted philanthropist Lorry Lokey through a community foundation in support of faculty recruitment and retention.
- $50,000 to the Graduate School of Education and Counseling from the Spirit Mountain Community Fund for the expansion of the Problem Gambling Services Clinic.
- $40,000 to support the Paul H. Casey Scholarship for Business Law and the Paul H. Casey Scholarship for Public Interest Law. This generous annual gift supports two students each year.
- Sandra Boynton BS '61 has established a charitable remainder trust through a contribution of real estate that will support the Dallaire Scholarship and provide other support for needs-based students.
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In our Chino dental office, one of the biggest concerns we hear from teens (especially the hungry ones) is that wearing orthodontics will impact their daily diet. We know that most of our younger patients are fairly particular in what they eat and at the very least, have multiple favorite foods. If things like pizza, hamburgers, sandwiches and popcorn are on their "must have" list, than Invisalign® is a far better option than braces. When wearing traditional metal braces, teens have to eat carefully. You cannot simply bite into a burger or sandwich and if you do, you will have a ton of food stuck in between your teeth. For teens, and adults, this can be completely embarrassing. Many teens change what they eat while wearing braces while others simply don't eat in public. Both can be inconvenient and silly when Invisalign® provides a better way. Since the Invisalign® aligners are designed to come out while eating, your teen can eat whatever they want without worrying about how they look or their orthodontics becoming damaged. This means that life can continue on like normal, without the annoying adjustments that teens don't enjoy.
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Another factor to compare when evaluating Invisalign® vs. traditional braces for teens is oral hygiene. This is a big deal because, as a dentist, we do not want any of our patients to suffer from decay and as a parent, you do not want your child to end up with a bunch of cavities. At Smile Artistry Chino Valley, our solution is to provide teens with Invisalign® instead of braces. When wearing braces, the risk for decay naturally goes up because it is harder to keep teeth clean. With Invisalign®, the aligners come out while brushing so their oral hygiene routine can remain virtually the same. The only slight difference is that the aligners need to be brushed with warm water and a soft toothbrush before being put back in. We can also recommend a special cleaning solution but otherwise, the process is the same as always and completely easy. If your teen gets braces instead, they will need to use a special flossing tool and a brush that looks like a tree to get the food particles and plaque off of the area around the brackets. This has to be repeated for every tooth so you can imagine how much longer it will take.
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Don't forget school activities when comparing Invisalign® vs. traditional braces for teens. At Smile Artistry Chino Valley, we have found that the majority of our patients do more than simply go to school. They are in the band, choir, play sports, act in the school play, etc. In other words – they are busy. Braces can interfere with this because they can be uncomfortable and make it difficult to play an instrument. They can also create a hazard when playing high-impact sports. Fortunately, Invisalign® does not. The aligners can be removed during any of these activities so that your teen does not have to sacrifice anything to straighten their teeth. They will be far happier with the process as a result. If you are unsure about a specific activity and how Invisalign® could impact it, visit our Chino, CA dental office to speak with Dr. Vijaya Cherukuri.
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During a recent visit to a coffee shop, I noticed that they hadn't bothered changing their default user name and password for their router.
I realise that someone could log on and be annoying to other users (kicking people off the network, locking the network), but what other malicious activities could be done with this kind of access?
For info, the coffee shop ran an open wifi network.
I did tell the coffee shop about this problem, but they didn't really care (or understand?)


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Oracle cans IBM attack ad after ticking off from watchdog
Big Blue shed big blue tears
Oracle has pulled an attack advert that claimed its Exadata system is twenty times faster than IBM Power systems - because it isn't, and an advertising watchdog wasn't impressed.
The ad compared an IBM Power system database performance at a European retailer with the same databases running on Exadata. The retailer found they ran twenty times faster. Oracle than extrapolated that specific case to boast that, for any application, Exadata systems ran twenty times faster than Big Blue's Power systems.
The claims appeared in full-page ads run in the Wall Street Journal, and also on its web site.
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The image above shows the attack ad text from a cached copy of Oracle's website. Our search term is highlighted in yellow.
Now Oracle is red-faced because the National Advertising Division (NAD), of the US Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, has got it by the nads: the watchdog demanded "that Oracle Corporation discontinue certain comparative product-performance claims for the company's Exadata database machines, following a challenge by International Business Machines Corporation".
Oracle has discontinued the publicity campaign. NAD considered that the advert implies all Oracle Exadata systems are twenty times faster than IBM's rival product line, a claim Oracle couldn't prove. That was IBM's position, and Oracle disagreed. NAD found in Big Blue's favour.
Oracle stated it was "disappointed with the NAD's decision in this matter, which it believes is unduly broad and will severely limit the ability to run truthful comparative advertising, not only for Oracle but for others in the commercial hardware and software industry". It will appeal NAD's decision to the US National Advertising Review Board. ®


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Good news for fans of democracy and voting rights, and for foes of discrimination! Bad news for Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, his GOP state legislature, and perhaps others like them in different states.
The U.S. Dept. of Justice may soon be filing a legal challenge to Pennsylvania's new GOP-enacted polling place Photo ID restriction. The law will affect the ability of some 750,000 legal voters to cast their once-legal vote in the Keystone State this November, unless it is overturned. If the feds choose to bring suit against the new law, it would be the first time the federal agency has used the anti-discrimination provisions of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 to block such a law.
Last February, as a civil rights group had filed a federal challenge against the state of Wisconsin, charging that state's new GOP-enacted polling place Photo ID restriction violated the federal constitution, we explained how the moment presented a "golden opportunity" for the U.S. Dept. of Justice to join the case and challenge it, as well as similar laws in other states, under Section 2 of the VRA.
As Ernie Canning detailed at the time, the DoJ has, to date, only challenged recently-enacted polling place Photo ID restriction laws in jurisdictions which are covered by Section 5 of the VRA. That section of the landmark federal law requires that new election laws in some 16 states, or parts of states with long histories of racial discrimination at the polls, receive federal government preclearance for the new laws before they may be enforced. Section 5 places the burden on the jurisdictions themselves to demonstrate that the new laws will not have a discriminatory effect.
Since these particular laws have been shown, indeed, to be designed to discriminate against largely Democratic-leaning voters, the states where the laws have been denied preclearance by the DoJ --- states like Texas and South Carolina, for instance --- have been unable to demonstrate their laws did not have the effect of discriminating against legal minority voters. In both of those cases, using data supplied to the DoJ by the states, it was simple to show the discriminatory effect of the new laws. (For example, in South Carolina, African-American voters were found to be 20% more likely to lack the type of ID needed to vote under the new law than white voters. In Texas, the state's own data showed that legal Hispanic voters were as much as 120% more likely to lack the requisite ID to vote under the new law than non-Hispanic voters.)
But similar laws passed in states not covered by Section 5 --- states like Wisconsin, Tennessee, Kansas, and Pennsylvania --- have yet to face the same kind of legal scrutiny from the federal government --- until now...
Laws passed by states not covered by Section 5 may be still be challenged as discriminatory under the VRA, but under Section 2, which places the onus on the federal government to prove the laws were passed with a discriminatory intent. In short, Section 5 cases are much easier to prove, since the burden is on the state to demonstrate they're not discriminating, while Section 2 cases are thought to be more difficult win, because the burden is shifted to the federal government to demonstrate a discriminatory intent.
But now, finally, months after we'd called on the DoJ to take on some of these cases, under Section 2, in states not covered by Section 5, it looks like they may finally be showing an interest in enforcing the federal law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
As TPM's Ryan Reilly reports today...
In a three-page letter sent to Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele on Monday, DOJ requested state data on registered voters as well as the state's list of individuals with driver's licenses and ID cards.
Additionally, DOJ requested information on the state's efforts to educate voters about the new law as well as documents and records supporting a March 14 statement from the office of Gov. Tom Corbett (R) which claimed "99 percent of Pennsylvania's already have acceptable photo IDs." (The state's own data later proved that figure wrong.)
Pennsylvania has said that over 750,000 voters lack an adequate form of voter ID, a number greater than President Obama's margin of victory in the state in 2008. One top Republican even said the voter ID law would help Mitt Romney win the state. As TPM reported, the public relations firm contracted to educate the public about the new voter ID law is stacked with Republicans.
This is a very encouraging development, at least for voters in Pennsylvania, if not the other states were disenfranchising Photo ID restrictions are moving forward without federal challenge, where local civil rights groups, to date, have been forced to file their own costly legal challenges to the discriminatory new laws.
The full 3-page 7/23/12 letter from the DoJ's Asst. Attorney General, Thomas E. Perez, to PA's Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele, may be downloaded here [PDF].


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They say the world is made up of two types of people. They're wrong. The world consists of three types of people, but two of those types get all the press.
Journalists like to frame issues in a binary fashion – one side against another. That's simple. It's black and white. It's A versus B. Reporters don't do this because they can't handle the complexity of multiple opposing points of view. They structure their stories as a duel between competing interests because readers find those stories easiest to digest. The audience finds such pairings quite familiar. Literature is replete with examples: Ahab vs. Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes vs. Professor Moriarty, and Bambi vs. Godzilla, to name a few.
It's not just drama. Philosophy often has an attraction to complimentary combinations. We see this most markedly in the Taoist notion of "dualistic-monism" as expressed in the Continue Reading "Are You an Instigator, a Skeptic, or Merely Somebody Else's Tool?"


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Environmentalists and economists alike are obsessed with putting a price on greenhouse gas emissions, and with good reason: climate pollution is a classic "externality," a cost paid not by polluters but by society at large. Pricing carbon internalizes that cost. The policy is "market-based" because it is agnostic toward particular practices, products, or technologies; the market's "invisible hand" is set loose to find the cheapest emission reductions without undue micromanaging by the dread "government bureaucrats."
Which is great, as far as it goes. But raising the price of carbon will lead to the cheapest, fastest emission reductions only if all else is equal, and in the real world, all else is not equal. Unpriced externalities are but one of many, many market failures around energy. Trying to correct them all with a carbon price is like trying to build a house using only a hammer. Not everything is a nail! Ultimately the effort will require lots and lots of what wonky greens have taken to calling, somewhat misleadingly, "complementary policies." (Kind of like how the other members of a soccer team are "complementary" to the goalie.)
It's difficult to summarize All the Other Stuff, but such policies include efficiency standards, low carbon fuel standards, reform of electricity grid interconnect rules, minimum renewable energy or efficiency mandates, infrastructure investments (think grid and public transit), and … on and on.
These policies are every bit as important — more important, in aggregate — as pricing carbon. They can help reduce the overall cost of a price-based policy. They can help address emissions sources that are not covered by a carbon pricing scheme (think agriculture). They can correct or compensate for other market failures. (For more on this, see a Powerpoint presentation from Holmes Hummel: "The Essential Role of Complementary Policies in Climate Policy Design.")
In other words, the work of tackling climate change need not wait for a price on carbon, and it will not end when a price is in place. That is but one step in a long road.


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Original article from Western Farm Press (by Todd Fitchette)
California cotton growers and water-starved fields could benefit from a conservation tillage practice not typical to this Golden State cash crop, although the practice is widely implemented and accepted elsewhere in the United States.
At Lucero Farms in Firebaugh, Calif., the decision this spring to implement no-till practices on cotton planted in western Fresno County seems a good one given a 20-percent water allocation via the State Water Project.
"I think it's a good system for growers," said Danny Ramos, farm manager with Lucero Farms. The farm entity rotates cotton with processing tomatoes.
Through the help of the University of California and others, Lucero Farms, which farms in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys, is using no-till conservation practices on 122 of the 223 acres of Phytogen 805 Pima cotton on the Firebaugh farm.
According to Jeffrey Mitchell, UC Cooperative Extension cropping systems specialist based at the Kearney Agricultural Research & Extension Center in Parlier, Calif., this could be the only commercial production of cotton using no till in California.
However, it is not just the water savings which makes no-till conservation tillage methods attractive, according to Mitchell. Farmers can also realize cost saving benefits in labor and equipment. University studies back this up.
A study conducted at the UC West Side Research and Extension Center in Five Points, located southwest of Fresno, reported that the number of tractor passes for a cotton-tomato rotation grown with a cover crop was reduced from 20 passes in the standard treatment to 13 passes with conservation tillage methods.
Fuel use in the study was reduced by 12 gallons. Labor needs were reduced by two hours in the study plots. The result was a cost savings of about $70 per acre.
Defining "No Till"
A UC Davis publication reports that conservation tillage – the larger umbrella term under which the term "no till" conservation is defined – was defined in 1984 by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (now the Natural Resources Conservation Service).
No till is a tillage system which maintains at least 30 percent of the soil surface covered by residue after planting, primarily where the objective is to reduce water erosion.
According to Mitchell and others, the objective of the residue left behind in the fields is to hold residual moisture and reduce the need for costly irrigation water.
Ramos confirmed this. He told attendees at a University of California-sponsored Cotton Field Day hosted at Lucero Farms about the appreciable decrease in water use on his no-till cotton field, compared to the minimally-tilled cotton planted in an adjacent field.
As of the end of May, Ramos had used four inches of water on the no-till plot and six inches in the minimum-till field.
Drip irrigation in Lucero's cotton fields plays a vital role in controlling water usage, Ramos said. He rotates processing tomatoes and cotton. The drip irrigation has helped boost tomato yields by 20 percent.
Additionally, pests and weeds are less of a factor in the no-till system, according to several speakers at the field day. Ramos suspects the ground cover from the previous crops incorporated into the soil, and the agricultural residue on the surface, reduces weeds germination.
It was also suggested during the field day discussions that the arid environment above the soil surface, due to drip irrigation practices which release water where the plants need it the most, may play a positive role in pest management since pests do not like dry conditions on the soil surface.
Based on a UC Davis report, conservation tillage can reduce the number of times tractors cross farm fields. While this protects the soil from erosion and compaction, Mitchell says the erosion factor alone is just one of the larger, regional issues impacting California agriculture as dust and tractor emissions continue to become targets of state and federal regulators.
In no-till or direct seeding systems, the soil is left undisturbed from harvest to planting except perhaps for the injection of fertilizers, according to UC Davis. Soil disturbance occurs only at planting by coulters or seed disk openers on seeders or drills, and at that, the soil disturbance in planting under these systems is much less than traditional means, Mitchell says.
Mitchell admits not all is not positive when considering no-till conservation methods when planting cotton. One of the drawbacks is generating a stand from seed.
"Cotton is not as easy to establish by no-till methods," Mitchell says.
Yet, no-till methods are not new to cotton elsewhere in the U.S. Cotton was one of the first no till crops in Kentucky and Tennessee in the 1950s and 1960s.
The acceptance of no-till conservation practices, says Mitchell, came about in other regions of the country due to the lack of irrigation water and a heavy reliance upon rain for crops.
California agriculture has become a successful multi-billion-dollar industry due to irrigation technologies from ground wells and the establishment of canals systems in the agriculturally rich river valleys of the state.
This is due in part to a changing political climate in California which for a number of years has siphoned off water traditionally provided for agriculture and allowed it to flow out to sea.
Pictures of dead permanent crops and fallowed, arid farm fields in California became fodder for television news features and politically-charged protests which emphasized the need for additional agronomic practices to keep farming viable and profitable in California.
Mitchell and others are trying to educate farmers about no-till practices for the economic benefits while still pointing out the positive environmental benefits.
Mitchell is a founder of Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation, a diverse group of more than 1,800 farmers, industry representatives, UC and other university faculty, and members of various public and private agencies looking at conservation tillage practices to save input costs for farmers, all while preserving California's rich farmland.


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2000-2013 Chinese Astrology of Britney Spears |
The Chinese Astrology Birth Chart of Britney Spears
Britney Spears is an American pop singer, dancer, songwriter,
actress, and author. She has sold more than 83 million records worldwide
by 2005. Britney was born on December 2, 1981 at 1:30 AM CST. She married to Kevin Federline in 2004. Her first child, Sean Preston, was born in 2005. The second child, Jayden James, was born in 2006. Their divorce was in November 2006. She lost the custody of two children in 2007. |
The following 10-God Birth Charts are from
Fortune Angel Chinese Astrology software:
The most right column is Year Column, which contains information about early
The 2nd right column is Month Column, which contains information of growing up
ages and family.
The 3rd column is the Day Column, which contains information of middle ages and
The last column is the Hour Column, which contains information of late ages and
Birth Chart in Graphic Symbols | Birth Chart in Chinese Characters |
Britney was born on the Wooden Tiger day in the Earth Pig month of the Metal Chicken Year. The Day Stem (Day Master) represents the person. Therefore, the Green Wood represents Britney herself. Tiger contains Wood. Pig is next to the Tiger. When Pig and Tiger together, they have attraction relationship into Wood. Another Female Wood is found in the Hour column. There are four Wood in the birth chart. She was born in the Winter time. Water is strong in the Winter. Water can helps Wood (tree) grow. Water is the Supporting Element of Wood. Therefore, Wood is very strong. That means Britney has a strong personality and good health. She has friends and supporters.
Five Element Scores of Britney Spears
From the Five Element scores, we can see that there is too much Wood and Water in the birth chart. If we put more Fire, Metal and Earth into the birth chart, then Five Elements have better balance shape in the birth chart. Therefore, we can say that Fire, Earth and Metal are Britney's lucky elements. Wood and Water are the unlucky elements.
Chinese astrology is talking about Five Elements. In general, Cow, Sheep, Dog and Dragon are Earth. To be more accurate,
Cow contains Yin Metal, Yin Earth, Yin Water. From the Five Stars theory, we know that
The Five Stars can be distinguished by Yin and Yang, and are derived into 10-God relationships. |
In Britney's birth chat, we find two Metal in the Year Column. Metal is a lucky element and is the Career Star. So Britney has a good strong career luck in the early age. Metal also represents boyfriend. Many boys should be around her at that time. Female Earth is on the Month Column. Earth is a lucky element and presents Money to her. People can see she has money before marriage. There is a Cow in the Hour column. Cow is in the Earth group. She still have money in her late age, but people don't see that well. Those money are Property Star , which people need to work hard to have it. There is one Windfall Star hidden in the Day Column. Windfall Star is like easy money; people can obtained readily with little or without effort. That means Britney doesn't earn that much money as before, but she has easy money to spend during the middle age.
Fire represents her reputation. There is no strong Fire in the birth chart. Wood represents Britney herself. Wood is the Mother Star of Fire. Therefore, Fire also represents her children. Since Fire is weak, she has less relationship with her children.
Male Wood in the Day Column stands for Britney herself. Male Wood and Female Earth in the Month Column have an attraction relationship. Tiger in the Day Column keeps the information about spouse. Tiger and Pig in the Month Column also have an attraction relationship. This is not a good sign for the marriage. It looks like both Britney and her spouse are looking for someone else. Metal represents the Husband Star. Metal are found in Year Column and Hour Column, but not inside the Tiger. That means her husband usually wont' stay home with her or they don't have time together on daily basis.
The Rise and Fall Chart - Five Element Balance Chart
Chinese astrology birth chart shows people's destiny. Chinese astrology 10-year major cycles reveals people's major fortune. The first major cycle began on 7/17/1983, which is 1 year 7 months and 15 days after her birthday. To study people fortune is not difficult, as long as we know the lucky elements.
Britney's Chinese Astrology 10-Year Major Cycles
Age | Major Cycle | Stem and Branches | Astrology Sign |
1-10 | Male Metal Rat; Rat is Water | Water helps Wood group. She had good health. Water presents education. Metal presents discipline to Wood. She had good training during childhood. | |
11-20 | Female Metal Cow; Cow is Earth | Metal is the Career Star. Earth is the Money Star. Earth is the supporting element of Metal. She has very good career achievement and money income. | |
21-30 | Male Water Tiger; Tiger is Wood | Water brings the bad reputation. Tiger contains Wood and Fire. Wood means spending money on friends or relatives. Fire means good reputation. She has mix reputation during this time. Fire also represents her children. | |
31-40 | Female Water Rabbit; Rabbit is Wood | Water is the bad reputation. Wood is decreasing income. Both Water and Wood are unlucky elements. Rabbit and Chicken in the Year Column have fighting relationship. Chicken is Metal. Metal is related to career, boyfriend, husband or law. That means something unsmooth will happen there. This cycle is the most difficult time in her life. | |
41-50 | Male Wood Dragon; Dragon is Earth | Earth is the income. Wood represents friends or spending money. But Male Wood and Female Earth in the Month Column have an attraction relationship into the Earth. She will invest some money on her friends or people relationship, the result will help her to become even richer. Dragon and Chicken in the Year Column have attraction relationship into Metal. Money and people relationship can help her career. | |
51-60 | Female Wooden Snake; Snake is Fire | Wood means spending money on friends. Fire is the sign of good reputation. That means she might spend money on friends or media to build good reputation. Snake has fighting relationship with Pig in the Month Column. Snake also has the hurting relationship with Tiger in the Day Column. The family and marriage relationships are very poor. | |
61-70 | Male Fire Horse; Horse is Fire | Fire means good reputation. The best balance time of her Five Elements. she will earn lots of reputation or good relationship with her children. | |
71-80 | Female Fire Sheep; Sheep is Earth | Fire means good reputation. Earth means money to her. That says the reputation creates money income for her. |
Britney Spears Personal Life References
Year | Yearly Cycle - Stem and Branch | Astrology Sign |
1992 | Water Monkey; Monkey is Metal | Water brings her courage. Metal is Career Star. She performed at Mickey Mouse Club at age 11. |
1999 | Earth Rabbit; Rabbit is Wood | Earth is money. Earning and spending money in
the same time. She released the first album - Baby One More Time. Pictures are published in many popular magazines. |
2000 | Metal Dragon; Dragon is Earth | Metal is career and Earth is money. She
released the second album -
I Did It Again. Male Metal and Female Wood have an attraction relationship into the Metal. Friends helped her to step up higher in career. She purchased a $1.5-million house for her brother Bryan. |
2001 | Metal Snake; Snake is Fire | Metal is career and Fire is fame. She released
the third album - Britney. She earned $10 million deal from Pepsi TV commercials. She was selected 2nd sexiest women in magazine. She raised $2 million to donate to the children of police officers and firemen who died at 911. |
2002 | Water Horse; Horse is Fire | Water is bad reputation and Fire is good
reputation. Horse and Tiger in the Day Column have
attraction relationship into Fire More positive reputation should come to her. She ended four-year relationship with Justin Timberlake. Forbes honored her "The Worlds most powerful celebrity". Her "Crossroad" movie was released. She opened restaurant "Nyla" in New York City. |
2003 | Water Sheep; Sheep is Earth | Water is bad reputation and Earth is money. She
released the fourth album - In the Zone. She had a Infamous "Like a Virgin" performance and Madonna kiss at the MTV Video Music Award. She won her first Grammy Award. She received star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. Nyla restaurant officially closed down. Fred Durst was in a relationship with her. |
2004 | Wood Monkey; Monkey is Metal | Wood is spending money and Metal is career. She
Greatest Hits: My Prerogative. Male Wood and Female Earth in the Month Column have an attraction relationship into the Earth. Earth in money. Friends came and made her richer. Metal also represents boyfriend. She married to Jason Allen Alexander on January 3 2004. The marriage lasted 55 hours. She engaged with Kevin in September 2004. |
2005 | Wood Chicken; Chicken is Metal | Wood is spending money. Metal is career. She
Someday (I Will Understand) and The Remixes. Her first child, Sean Preston, was born. |
2006 | Male Fire Dog; Dog is Earth | Earth is money. Fire is Child Star and Fame
Star. Male Fire and Female Metal in the Year column of the birth chart have
attraction relationship into the Water.
Water is bad reputation. She was on
the "Worst Dressed" list of fashion critic. The second son, Jayden Federline, was born. She filed for divorce in November. |
2007 | Female Fire Pig; Pig is Water | Fire is Child Star and Fame Star. Water is bad
reputation. She released her fifth album - Blackout. Her very close aunt died of cancer in January. She had a short visit drug rehabilitation facility in Antigua. She shaved her hair off, then accepted a short treatment in Malibu. She battles children's custody in September She lost physical custody of her children in October, since driver's license, drug and alcohol issues. |
2008 | Earth Rat; Rat is Water | Earth is money. Water is bad reputation. If her birth hour, Cow Hour, is correct, then Rat and Cow in the Hour Column have an attraction relationship into Earth. Earth is money. The infamous reputation brings her money. Earth is the Mother Star (supporting element) of the Metal. Metal is the Career star. Earth can be an energy to push her career. On January 3, she refused to relinquish custody of her children and was hospitalized. On January 14, she was ordered to suspend the visitation rights to her children. |
2009 | Earth Cow; Cow is Earth | Earth is money. Cow still contain a little bit Water. This is a good Money year to Britney. |
2010 | Metal Tiger, Tiger is Wood | Metal is Career. Male Metal and Female Wood
have an
attraction relationship into the Metal. Friends will push her for her career. Tiger is Wood, but it contains Fire. Spending money can buy the fame. This is good opportunity for the career. There is another Tiger in the 10-year Major Cycle. Three Tigers together means someone will handle her career behind the scene. But the reputation pressure is still there, because the 10-year Major Cycle is Water Tiger. Water is bad fame. Tiger and Pig also have an attraction relationship. Many attraction relationships brings good people relationship, including love match. |
2011 | Metal Rabbit; Rabbit is Wood | Metal is Career. Wood is Friend or spending
money. Wood and Metal are opposite element. They fight each other. Rabbit and Chicken in the Year Column have fighting relationship too. There is an argument related to career, boyfriend, husband or law. |
2012 | Water Dragon; Dragon is Earth | Water is bad reputation, Earth is money. Dragon
and Chicken in the Year Column have attraction relationship
into Metal. Something related to career is going, but no reputation. |
2013 | Water Snake; Snake is Fire | Water is bad reputation. Fire is good reputation. But Snake has fighting relationship with Pig in the Month Column. Snake also has the hurting relationship with Tiger in the Day Column. New 10-year Major Cycle Water Rabbit comes in this year. Rabbit and Chicken in the Year Column have fighting relationship. Year, Month and Day columns have the fighting and hurting relationships in the same time. The birth chart is shaking. Britney needs people attention, help and support to prevent any accident happen. |
Water is the biggest enemy to Britney Spears. Water to her is related to her parents, supporters, people around her. She should keep distance from them. Britney Spears like to wear black color dress and goes to the night club. Black and night are in the Water group, which is unfavorable to her.
Fire is her lucky element and represents her children. So the children are very important to her. Children around her can help her life. But she has very low score of Fire in the birth chart. The current Major Cycle is Water Tiger. Only Tiger contains some Fire. So her children relationship is very weak. The next Major Cycle in 2013 is Water Rabbit. There is no Fire inside. That means she will be forced to keep distance from her children.
Britney Spears has strong Wood and Water. Strong Wood gives her strong personality. Strong personality people is used to ask for what they want and never thinks about give in or yield. To weaken the Wood has two ways. One is to use Fire to release the energy of Wood. So Britney Spears should learn how to sacrifice her freedom for her children. The second way is to use Metal to conquer the Wood. Metal is boyfriend or husband. So taking advice from men is good for her. But Wood is attacking by Metal, her supporter Water will come to help. Water can release the pressure from Metal and the pressure will decrease over the Wood. In short, the best lucky element to her is Fire.
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The company recorded revenue of $10.3 billion for the first quarter, an increase of 44 percent compared to last year's first quarter. The numbers also beat analyst estimates of $9.8 billion.
The company saw microprocessor and chipset revenue increase during the quarter. The company in January launched new Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 chips for laptops and desktops, followed by new Xeon server 5600 chips in the middle of March. The chips were made using the 32-nanometer manufacturing process, which makes microprocessors faster and more power-efficient while reducing manufacturing costs. In February last year, Intel said it would invest $7 billion over the next two years to revamp manufacturing plants to lower chip-manufacturing costs and increase production.
"The investments we're making in leading edge technology are delivering the most compelling product line-up in our history," said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO, in a statement. "Looking forward, we're optimistic about our business as Intel products are designed into a variety of new and exciting segments," Otellini said.
Intel has produced more chips and saved more money from its 32-nm process than expected, Otellini said during a conference call to discuss the financial results. The company is now shipping more than 50 different 32-nm chip brands.
Intel estimated revenue for the second quarter to be around $10.2 billion, plus or minus $400 million. That would be a 27 percent increase over the second quarter of 2009.
The company got a boost from the improving economic environment after the IT industry hit rock bottom at around this time last year, Otellini said. Intel had record mobile-microprocessor revenue during the quarter as consumer PC purchases picked up.
Average selling prices of the Core i3, i5 and i7 processors were high, which helped improve margins and profitability, he said. Revenue for the PC client group, which sells laptop and desktop processors, was $7.7 billion, a 43 percent increase compared to the year-ago quarter.
Netbooks are levelling off at about 20 percent of all consumer laptop purchases, Otellini said. The company will come out with new netbook chips later this year, including a dual-core Atom processor, to attract buyers.
Otellini was cautious in his comments about corporate spending. He said enterprises are being careful about spending and making purchases on a per-need basis, like refreshing laptops as needs arise, Otellini said. Companies are still wondering what the year will look like going forward.
It makes sense for companies to spend on upgrading servers first as this will deliver more savings, Otellini said. The recently launched eight-core Nehalem-EX processors can deliver significant savings by consolidating 20 servers into one, and the new Xeon 5600 chips will become more attractive in the latter part of the year as prices fall, Intel officials said.
Demand for data center infrastructure such as servers could pick up in the fourth quarter, said Stacy Smith, Intel's chief financial officer, calling the projection a "wild guess."
Intel has already started sampling chips based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture, which is the successor to the Nehalem family used in chips today. Sandy Bridge chips will go into volume production later this year, Otellini said.


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Kazam is a screencasting and screenshot application that shows much potential, but it is not yet fully suitable for anything more than personal use.Screen-recording tools are a step or two beyond single-frame screen-capture applications. Kazam performs both functions and can record input from the computer's microphone as well as from the speakers. You can record sound from any sound-input device supported by PulseAudio.
Kazam 1.4.3-2, which was released in April, does a much better job with taking screenshots than recording lengthy screen sessions. Still, it is very handy to have an app that provides both motion and still-capture modes.
Kazam clearly has some advantages over alternatives such as recordMyDesktop and Istanbul, so I will keep using it as long as its developer keeps improving its performance.
A Project Reignited
Launched in 2010, the Kazam project seemed to reach a dead end between early 2012 and mid 2013. Blog notes on the project's home page suggest that work on Kazam almost came to a grinding halt because life and other projects got in the way for a while.
Today, however, the project appears to be back on track with a recent release as well as a list of upcoming features and fixes in the works.
Kazam is now available from the Ubuntu Universe repository. I had no trouble downloading the current release from the Ubuntu and the Linux Mint software managers. The current release is also available from the Synaptic Package Manager that feeds numerous other Linux distros.
Another option is to get Kazam from Launchpad. This provides a much wider range of downloads for older builds and newer versions down the line that might not be released through the repositories. Stable PPA and unstable PPA versions are available.
Kazam's Launchpad page has the latest available version in tarball format. If you do not like dealing with archived files and manual installations, stick with the repository options.
Why Use It?
Capturing screenshots and recording actions displayed on a computer screen normally are handled by separate applications. For occasional use, that may be fine for most Linux users.
For example, on most of my Linux distros I use the stock GNOME screenshot app for convenience. This single-frame screenshot taker tool works well on Ubuntu's Unity desktop, Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop, Xfce and LXDE.
Recording screen sessions with other applications usually require more configuration hassles. Some require dragging a box around the portion of the screen marked for motion capture. Others require a series of clicks and settings to make every recording work.
While Kazam's two-in-one capture mode is not yet perfect, its interface makes the process a lot more user-friendly. I find it much more reliable than the screenshot and desktop video applet in the Cinnamon 2.0 desktop, for instance.
Kazam at Work
I like Kazam's user interface. Its two-in-one design makes it quick and simple to capture both screencasts and screenshots. The app window shows buttons for selecting screencasts or screenshots. A second round of buttons lets you select a full-screen, all-screens, window or area to capture.
For screenshots, you can include the mouse pointer and windows borders by checking/unchecking each option. Similarly, for screencasts you can include or exclude the mouse pointer, sound from speakers or microphone.
Also, you can select a time delay before the capture begins by clicking a plus or minus sign to set the number of seconds to wait. A series of circled numbers in the center of the screen counts down the delay until grabbing the image begins. You can turn off this countdown splash feature in the Preferences panel.
Click to Control
Click the Capture button at the bottom of the app window to start the capture process. The app window disappears.
For capturing screen activity, an icon appears in the notification area of the panel. Clicking this icon opens a minimal control panel that lets you pause the recording or finish it.
A basic file menu is available. Depending on the type of desktop environment used, this file menu will have a slightly different appearance and location. It provides a limited set of configuration options under tabs for each capture mode. The limited options include activating automatic file saving and the storage location.
Saving Files
Kazam uses a progressing numbering system for file names if you set it to automatic file saving. This is similar to the auto-save feature in most digital cameras.
A better option, though, is to turn off the auto file-saving feature. Then you get the expected dialog window where you can rename the preselected file number and select the storage location.
If you do a lot of work with either recording mode, naming each file at the time of capture will eliminate a repetitive renaming process afterwards. I find it easier to place each new capture in the folder for the work project for which I am using the capture.
Acceptable Results
Screenshots save in .png format — no other options are available in the Preference panel — but you can select Cannon 7D or the Nikon D80 shutter type. I did not notice a difference either way.
Screencasts save in .mp4 format by default, but a scrollable selection in the Preferences panel lets you change the default file format to VP8/WEBM or RAW/AVI. Kazam also supports H264 video format.
I have no issues with the quality of the screenshots. The screencast quality was more problematic depending on what I included in the screen session.
A Visual Acuity Issue
The video playback was fairly clear and smooth if I capture movement on just one work space. No distortions were evident mousing within a single application or moving among several resized windows on one screen.
However, that was not the case when the recorded screen session involved moving among different screens or work spaces — then, the playback showed jerky movements and serious color distortions. The same poor video playback occurred when I opened the main application menu.
The distortions involved a momentary change of screen resolution. Sometimes the balance of light to dark and color accuracy was radically wrong, When the playback showed mousing actions contained within one screen, the resolution and color issues were normal.
This playback problem was not limited to a single computer configuration or desktop environment. It occurred on several desktops and laptops running AMD and Intel processors and having a range of RAM from 4GB to 8GB.
Bottom Line
Kazan is a handy application for capturing screencasts and screenshots. It can record desktop video and multiple audio streams simultaneously, with control over audio levels and the screen region being captured.
Video playback can be a problem if your recording involves rapid screen relocations, however. If the developers can improve this issue, Kazan can quickly rise to a dominant choice. It is already a near-flawless screenshot tool for capturing a single screen image.
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Step 1: Dispel Your Fears
1 of 11Leon's World's Fastest Triathlon
Think you have a valid reason why you shouldn't try triathlon? Think again. You can learn how to swim; You don't have to spend a fortune on gear; and you do have time to train.
Step 2: Sign Up for a Race
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For most athletes, the best motivator is having a goal. Once you choose a race, you have something to work for. Tip: a sprint triathlon close to home is a good place to start.
Step 3: Get the Gear
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Triathlon gear doesn't have to be fancy, it just needs to get you through training and across the finish line. You want to start with the basics—goggles, running shoes, bike and helmet—but there are a few often overlooked items that can help make you more comfortable on race day.
Step 4: Follow a Training Plan
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Training plans are a triathletes best friend. They tell you when to do a workout and when to rest. And if you trust them, they are the best way to prep for a successful race day.
Step 5: Overcome Your Fear of the Swim
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The swim is often the most intimidating part of a triathlon, even for multisport veterans. The key is to know what to expect, and learn how to manage your fears in time for race day.
Step 6: Practice Nutrition
6 of 11From pre-workout breakfasts to mid-workout snacks, nutrition is an important part of training. Use your longer workout days to experiment with the foods that work best for you. This helps prepare your stomach for nerves and stress on race day.
Step 7: Practice Transitions
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Training for three sports is one thing, transitioning between those sports is another. Fast transitions will come with time, but your primary goal should be smooth transitions. Be sure to practice several times before race day. Set up your transition area, and go through the motions of both swim-to-bike and bike-to-run gear changes.
Step 8: Trust Your Training
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It's common among endurance athletes to doubt their readiness in the days, hours and minutes leading up to the race. During this time, however, it is essential to stay focused and ignore what anybody else says. Do not make any last-minute changes to your strategy or your gear. Trust that you did everything you could do to prepare and have a little faith in yourself.
Step 9: Rock the Race
9 of 11Big Kahuna Triathlon
Triathlons are supposed to be fun, so try not to let the nerves rule your day. Remember to breathe and soak in your surroundings. You've earned it.
Step 10: Celebrate Your Accomplishment
10 of 11Huntington's Disease Triathlon
You've put in the time and you've worked hard. Take a moment to congratulate yourself. Triathletes should typically take a week or more to recover from a race so use this time to reflect on your experience, pat yourself on the back, and start daydreaming about your next triathlon.


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Ernesto Grasso – 1922 – 2014
The Grasso family of Ca' del Baio, a century-old Barbaresco winery in Treiso, experienced the pain of loss on March 11th with the passing of their patriarch, Ernesto Grasso. Surrounded by the family that loved him dearly, Ernesto passed with the same dignity with which he lived, in the house he built over 5 decades ago.
On that late winter day, the Grasso family's hearts collectively entered a winter of loss shared by all those who loved Nonno Grasso and the family that always surrounded him with love. Nonno had been in failing health, but he still was able to participate in the winery's work – including the 2013 harvest – and two years of delightful times with the fourth generation of his family, Lidia Deltetto.
The Legacy of Ca' del Baio
Ernesto Grasso's grandfather moved his family of six – including his son Luigi – from Calosso d'Asti to Treiso in 1881. The wine made from the great Asili vineyard in Barbaresco Ernesto's grandfather acquired as a wedding dowry from his wife's family is today one of the Barbaresco appellation's prized treasures.
Immediately after completing his military service during the First World War, Luigi married and founded Ca' del Baio. Luigi's wife gave him five children of which the first four were girls. In those days, the patrimonial system made it unthinkable for women to inherit land (what would Luigi say about his three granddaughters working the winery now!). In 1922, Luigi's prayers for a son were answered with the birth of his youngest child Ernesto.
Throughout the Fascist regime, Ernesto remained a bachelor, a stigma the Fascists branded with a special "bachelor" tax. Ernesto obviously was waiting for the right woman to come along. And she did. In 1956, he married Fiorentina Cortese, the woman with whom he would share the next 58 years of life.
In the 1950s, Ernesto built the family's home next to the ever-expanding cantina. It was then he stopped selling the family's prized grapes and began the legacy he passed to his son Giulio – bottling wines under the Ca' del Baio label. Ernesto and Fiorentina, later joined by Giulio and his family, lived in the house Ernesto built until he passed quietly in his own bed.
The Future is Secure
For some time Giulio has been running the family's winery, but Ernesto remain engaged in the day-to-day operations and watched with great pride as his three granddaughters – Paolo Grasso Deltetto, Valentina and Federica – took their places with Guilio and their mother Luciana in the winery. How times have changed that the absence of sons as heirs no longer deals a fatal blow to an estate. Thank God, because Ca' del Baio will live on through the hard work of Giulio and Luciana, and their three daughters!
Soon, Paola and husband Carlo Deltetto's second child will join sister Lidia in the next generation of the two esteemed wine families. No doubt the knowledge his legacy is in capable hands helped him peacefully join his father to become Ca' del Baio's newest guardian angel.
My Thoughts
Although I met Nonno Ernesto at the turn of the millennium, I can't say that I really knew him. We didn't share a spoken language, but we exchanged knowing smiles that we shared a love of his wonderful family and the wines they produce. I got to see him in the winery, around the tasting and dining tables, playing tug with Rocky II and, best of all, seeing him play with his great granddaughter Lidia.
In March 2013 during a research trip for my book about the women of Piemonte's wine families, I once again was invited to join the four generations of Grassos around their dining table for lunch. With Lidia in her happy world of pasta on one end and Nonno Ernesto on the other end of the table sitting next to Nonna Fiorentina and two generations of Grassos in between, I couldn't help but feel an overwhelming emotion of joy at being able to share part of their daily routine with them. It's an indelible image in my memory. Such a privilege to be able to know them as family. So much life happens around Italian dining tables and those snapshots of their life will live inside me forever.
Thank God family togetherness on a daily basis still exists in the hills of the Langhe!


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A Four-Seat Lamborghini Aventador? Say It Ain't So!
If you've ever driven a supercar like a Lamborghini, then you know this — they're incredible fast and there isn't enough room for a passenger and a bag of groceries much less two more human beings. Is Lamborghini going to build a four-seat version of Aventador supercar?


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Filmhaus at the Künstlerhaus
Königstraße 93, 90402 NürnbergThe city-owned Filmhaus satisfies fans of ambitious filmmaking. The theater, located in the Künstlerhaus of the city of Nuremberg, offers a colorful mixture of international premieres, foreign films, director and special-themed series, silent films classics, children's films and film festivals.
The address for sophisticated movies
The award-winning Filmhaus Nuremberg is also a community center encouraging participation, discussion and development of moving pictures. In addition to two film theaters, workshops for film- and video editing, film- and video production or audio recording, the Film Office Franken e.V., the Kommkino e.V., the Medienladen e.V. and various film festival offices find space here.


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Radioactive isotopes from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster turned up in bluefin tuna caught off California in August, a new study reports. The 15 fish that were tested contained 10 times the background levels of radioactive cesium, including a short-lived isotope that the fish must have absorbed while swimming in contaminated waters near Japan before migrating east across the Pacific.
The finding demonstrates that the nuclear accident last March had a pervasive and enduring impact on the world's interconnected oceans. Although the contamination in these particular tuna fell well below levels considered dangerous for consumption, the study authors said they were "surprised to see [contamination] at all."
This raises the question: Was the fallout of the Fukushima nuclear disaster worse than predicted?
Even 15 months out, it's hard to say. "A lot of questions remain," said Ken Buesseler, a marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. "One gaping question is how much radioactivity was released. Another is related to the continued leak at Fukushima and another is the level of contamination of seafood and sediments — whether that will change over time or continue for decades."
Assessing the impact of a disaster can be difficult to do without concrete numbers. Buesseler said scientists have yet to quantify the total amount of radionuclides, or radiation-emitting atoms, that were released into the environment during the accident. Estimates from various studies range from 13 Petabequerels (PBq) to as much as 60 PBq. For comparison, 85 PBq spewed into the environment during the Chernobyl accident, but whereas most of the output from the Chernobyl meltdown settled on dry land, around 80 percent of Fukushima's release is believed to have wound up in the Pacific. [Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Timeline of Events]
And the damage to the oceans isn't done yet. "The reactors are still leaking," Buesseler told Life's Little Mysteries. "The release has been stable for several months, but there are still radionuclides being released on shore." As a consequence, fish off the coast of Japan are continuing to exhibit elevated levels of contamination, and some bottom-dweller species around Fukushima are still unsafe to eat. "The fact that the level of contamination is not going down, that they have fish that are above legal limits, is of concern," he said. "Why aren't the fish getting cleaner?"
Many of the samples baffle scientists. In Japan, scientists have observed a wide range of radionuclide concentrations in fish of a single species tested at the same time. "A lot of that variability is poorly understood and can't be predicted," Buesseler said. [10 Species Humans will Soon Drive Extinct]
As demonstrated by the new findings, that lack of understanding includes bluefin tuna. Scientists thought the fish would have purged radionuclides from their bodies by the time they reached the U.S. Pacific coast, but they contained a clear "fingerprint" of Fukushima, an isotope called cesium-134 that decays in just a few years. Still, the tuna would have been safe to eat, and although scientists plan to continue monitoring contamination of seafood along the Pacific Coast, they aren't likely to find dangerous levels of radioactivity there.
Detectable radiation doesn't equal dangerous radiation, said Pal Andersson, environmental assessment analyst with the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority."One must remember that it is very easy to measure radioactivity," Andersson wrote in an email. "Even very small amounts are detectable, so you will detect concentrations which are too low to have any ecological impact or effects on human health."
The ecological impact of Fukushima is yet to be determined, but one superlative is certain. Chernobyl entailed a larger total release of radioactive materials than Fukushima, but the event was far removed from any oceans. And nuclear weapons testing dumped a lot of radionuclides into the seas, but the tests were intentional. Buesseler said: "This is the largest accidental release of radionuclides to the oceans ever."
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Not all colonists—British citizens, after all—supported the War for Independence. Williamsburg's William Hunter was one who did not.
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Like others during the Revolution, William Hunter, portrayed by Sam Miller, struggled with the divisions his loyalist views caused with friends and family who backed independence. Finally, in 1781, he joined Cornwallis's British army at Yorktown.
Peopling the Past: Meet William Hunter
by Ed Crews
Not every Virginian supported the fight for independence and the Revolutionary War. Williamsburg printer William Hunter believed the American cause was unwise and its defeat inevitable. Sam Miller, portraying Hunter, speaks as Hunter might have in September 1779, presenting a pessimistic view of the conflict and its consequences. Miller's comments have been edited and condensed.
- Mr. Hunter, you seem upset. What's bothering you?
Any rational man should be upset, sir. The British have invaded Virginia. Fifteen hun- dred regulars have seized the fort at Portsmouth, and the Virginia regiment has fled to North Carolina. The Continental Army is not here. George Washington is in the North. Nobody stands between us and disaster. The English easily could march on Williamsburg and burn the town. Governor Patrick Henry, whom I have never held in high regard, has talked about calling out the militia. What can farmers and merchants do to stop well-trained troops? We are in a dangerous and, to my mind, helpless position.
- You see no reason for hope?
I believed from the war's start that disaster would attend the foolhardy pursuit of Congress's dream of independence. The British army is unstoppable, and the royal navy is the world's best. Great Britain has occupied one-fifth of the known world. I never thought that the Continental Army could oppose this sort of force. Defeat seemed, to me, inevitable from the start, and, now, with English soldiers in Portsmouth, I have the worst possible confirmation of my fears.
- How deep are your doubts about the American cause?
To my way of thinking, Congress had no right to meet in the first place, and its members were all-too eager to vote for independence. As to the Declaration of Independence, it is little more than a collection of opinions with no real legal or moral force behind it. Plus, Congress is completely ineffectual at supporting the war. The representatives debate a lot, but they cannot seem to get Washington the men, food, or equipment he so desperately needs.
- Could Congress have followed another course?
Certainly. We could have peacefully protested those British policies we opposed. This worked for the Stamp Act and the Townsend Act. I considered both unreasonable and supported dignified objections. In time, our opposition became clear, and both measures were repealed. The tea tax? We could have chosen simply not to drink tea, and the tax quickly would have disappeared. Hotheads in Boston only made the matter worse by their violent and illegal destruction of property. All would have been well if people acted calmly and rationally.
- Your comments suggest that you are a loyalist.
My political convictions are my own business. I will say that I have grown weary of the American cause and the ineptitude of its leaders. Their bullheadedness astonishes me, especially in the face of the overwhelming odds against them and that their plans are in shambles.
- Do others share your views?
I believe there are many more people who think like me than is generally believed. When the British occupied New York, a number of people expressed their true beliefs about the war and their loyalty to the crown. Once the fear of speaking honestly about Congress and this conflict is removed, people who have doubts can and do state them.
- Can you share your views openly with Williamsburg neighbors?
I cannot. I wish that I could, like a proper Englishman with rights given us by custom and law, openly debate the current situation. Yet that is impossible. We live in the shadow of being tarred and feathered for giving a view that is contrary to that held by Congress. My situation is especially difficult because my father-in-law is fully behind the independence movement, and I naturally want to keep the peace with friends and family.
- I wonder if you ever would go over to the British.
I would not want my neighbors to hear this, so I ask your confidence. I believe that if the British come here—and they very well may—we would rather be under their protection than at the mercy of their bayonets.
Hunter acted on his disillusionment with the American cause. In 1781, when Lord Cornwallis came to Williamsburg, he joined the British army, served in it at the Battle of Yorktown, and immigrated to England after the war.


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DALLAS (AP) — AT&T is leasing or selling the rights to 9,700 wireless towers for $4.85 billion as it generates cash to buy back stock, fund an acquisition and upgrade its cellular telephone system.
The Dallas company said Sunday that it will lease about 9,100 towers and sell another 600 to Crown Castle International Corp. in a deal that's expected to close by the end of the year. AT&T, the nation's largest telephone company, said in a statement that the deal won't have any impact on its customers.
AT&T will sublease capacity on the towers from Houston-based Crown Castle for at least 10 years, with an option for 50 more.
Crown Castle, which operates wireless communications towers across the U.S. and in Australia, said the deal gives it the ability to add tenants to the towers. It will fund the deal with cash on hand, and equity and debt financing.
The move gives AT&T cash to fund a plan announced in July to buy back 300 million of its shares on top of a repurchase plan that it was just completing. The newest stock buyback could cost the company $10 billion or more. In addition, AT&T said last month that it is investing $11 billion to $12 billion this year to upgrade its wireless and high-speed Internet networks, and in July, it announced a plan to buy Leap Wireless International for $1.2 billion.
Company officials have also hinted at interest in acquisitions in Europe.
"This deal will let us monetize our towers while giving us the ability to add capacity as we need it," AT&T Senior Vice President Bill Hogg said in a statement. "We'll get additional financial flexibility to continue to invest in our business and maintain a strong balance sheet and return value to our shareholders."
AT&T said it doesn't expect the deal to have any significant impact on its financial results. It said last month it was close to making a deal for its towers.
The company will sublease capacity on the towers for $1,900 per month per site, with annual rent increases of 2 percent per year, the statement said. The company will have access to reserve capacity on the towers for future use.
After the leases expire, Crown Castle can buy the towers for about $4.2 billion. The average lease runs for about 28 years.
It's not the first big tower purchase Crown Castle has made from wireless operators. In October 2012, the company sold $1.65 billion in debt to help fund a $2.4 billion purchase about 7,200 towers from T-Mobile USA Inc.
Crown Castle said the towers involved in the AT&T deal are located in top markets across the U.S. It says nearly half the AT&T towers are in the nation's top 50 markets. The company has been focusing on the nation's top 100 markets, where it expects most wireless network activity and upgrades to occur.
When the deal closes, Crown Castle will have about 40,000 towers through the U.S., keeping it the largest wireless infrastructure operator in the country, it said in a statement.
The company has scheduled a conference call for 7:30 a.m. EDT Monday to discuss the transaction and its third-quarter results.